power. However, she still stands in the middle whether she should appreciate the gift or not, for the gift has taken her eyesight and burdens her.
Last, the excerpt 3 of Connie describes a lot about darkness. From the analyses of the appreciation and judgment, she gives negative valuation and
judgment not only for herself but also for the other women which are represented by the appreciation -val for the other women and herself, the judgment -cap for
her, and the judgment -prop and judgment -ver to the other women. From the affect -hap and affect +des, it emphasizes not just her unhappiness but her
misery and her high desire to die. It is exactly the opposite from what she says to Mavis to fight the incubus.
4.3.3 Thought Presentation
The phenomenal as the phenomenon in the mental representations of Mavis employs three types of mental process, desiderative, emotive, and perceptive
which are related to the appraisals. The words are chose, felt, and heard. In the relation with the appraisals, the appraisals shown in this analysis of phenomenal
as phenomenon represent the development of the attitude of the character. They illustrate Mavis’s mental condition from excerpt 1 until excerpt 3 that is from the
affect -sec, judgment -cap, and affect +hap. Thus, it can be said that the phenomenal is used by the writer to give brief illustration to the readers about the
development of the mental representation, especially the attitude in terms of the appraisal of the character.
For Connie, the phenomenal as the phenomenon in excerpt 1 and excerpt 2 gives the overall description about what the character has in mind in the entire
excerpt. The mental verbs that occur are felt and saw. In excerpt 1, the examples
of the phenomenon indicates the condition when Connie falls in love to Deacon, while in excerpt 2, the examples of the phenomenon illustrate her negative
valuation toward herself. Some different main characteristics of the IT are carried out in Mavis’s
mental representation. First, the types of the IT in excerpt 1 mainly illustrate about Mavis’s analysis on the situation, her understanding toward her family, and the
reaction or the next action coming to her mind. Second, the types of the IT in excerpt 2 emphasize Mavis’s condition, particularly that lead to her
dissatisfaction. Last, the IT in excerpt 3 describes the need of Mavis to find out her mental changes after several years living at Convent. In comparison with the
phenomenal as the phenomenon, the IT is not merely used to describe about the attitude of the character. It talks more to describe about the cognitive and the
desiderative processes of the character which lead to the analysis of the situation, the action, and the contemplation about Mavis’ mental condition. Some mental
verbs stated by Semino and Short 2004 occur in this analysis of the IT. They are understood, know knew, thought, remembered,
and decide decided. The style of the IT is to present the mind of Connie from excerpt to excerpt
and to give an overall description about the story in each excerpt. While in the first excerpt, the IT talks about how she falls in love, the second excerpt tells
about her negative valuation and her doubt on her power. The last excerpt explores her suffering, her high inclination to die in order to end the suffering, and
her negative valuation and judgment on the other characters. The functions of the FIT are the same, supporting the IT, but the FIT here
has different characteristics. The varied forms of the FIT in excerpt 1 are used to
support the IT like to elaborate Mavis’s analysis on the situation, her family, and her decision. In excerpt 2, it only has two forms, material and relational, and it
generally talks about her analysis the judgment -cap of Mavis and judgment +cap of the other characters. Finally, the FIT in excerpt 3 commonly talks about
the affect whether +hap after she lives at Convent, -hap when she still lives with her husband, or -sec when it deals with her dream. The FIT also shows the
important role of Connie in her mind and her dependency on Connie. Thus, the FIT is intended to direct and elaborate to the readers the mental development of
the character. If the use of the phenomenal and the IT has given a brief description to
the story of each excerpt, the effect of the FIT is to give further explanation to the phenomenal and the IT, especially for excerpt 1 and excerpt 2. In excerpt 1, it
places the readers to Connie’s point of view, so they can see what Connie sees, and in excerpt 2, they are invited to enter Connie’s mind to feel like her and how
she has such negative judgment on God and herself. Thus, the FIT in those two excerpts allows the readers to ask for further description on the mind of the
character by entering directly to the mind of the character. As for excerpt 3, the number of the FIT is quite equal to the number of the IT, and the role of the IT to
illustrate the condition is more dominant than the FIT, so the FIT only gives little support to the IT and explain what the IT has not explained. FIT in Mavis and
Connie is dominated the types of thought presentation as what has been stated by Leech and Short 2007, and the reason for it is to make the readers closer to the
mind of the characters as argued by Verdonk 2002, Leech and Short 2007, and Miall 2008.
The NRTA and embedded idea in Mavis also construct particular functions. In excerpt1, the perceptive verb, chilled, with thought indicates the affect -sec in
Mavis’ cognitive condition. Likewise, in excerpt 2 the narrator illustrates the emotive side, particularly the incapability and unhappiness in the cognitive
condition of the character. Concerning the embedded idea, it appears in the form of proof which in excerpt 3 appears to compare the old Mavis and the new Mavis.
While the embedded idea of Mavis appears in the form of proof, the embedded idea of Connie appears in impersonal mental process with seemed. The
idea embedded to seemed expresses the negative valuation and judgment from Connie toward the Convent women. Thus, it can be concluded that the embedded
idea here shows the contrastive condition between the psychological condition the character, Connie, with what the Convent women think about her since she is a
trusted place where the women come to talk about their problem. From the analysis of the linguistic features used by the characters, it has
been proven that, first, different choices of linguistic features will result in different effects. Since Mavis and Connie use different choices of style of
linguistic features, the narrator can communicate her idea on the different psychological conditions of those characters to the readers. In comparison with
the previous stylistic study conducted by Hassanpour and Hashim 2012, this research results in different conclusion to their research. Hence, different
participants, processes, and lexical choices will create different effects to development of the story. Regarding the topic of this research, those differences
have led to the effect on what the readers feel on the mental process of the characters
Second, the analysis of the linguistic features has helped in understanding literary text and supported the literary analysis. It has been claimed by Barry
1995 on the purposes of stylistics that give hard data, propose a literary interpretation using linguistic evidence, and explore how the meanings are
construed and create certain effect. It is also supported by Simpson 2004 who says that the linguistic features have function to interpret a text. For example, this
study supports a research from Marcos 2002 and De Voss 2010 who discuss the problematic belief and crisis of self identity experienced by Connie. De Voss
2010 also states about Mavis’s transformation. This study not only supports those researches but also gives details and direct illustration about the mental
condition of the characters, so the readers can feel more the mental condition of the characters.
Last, this study has also presented the analysis of the various styles in the omniscient narrator. It has shown that certain thought presentation has its own
purpose and even can be different from one character to another. What is shown in certain thought presentation of one character can be different from another
character depending on the mental condition of the characters. Furthermore, the analysis of the omniscient narrator can help the readers to identify the mental
process of the characters.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter will be divided into two parts, conclusion and recommendations. The first part, conclusion, will present the summary of the
findings. Then the second part, recommendations will offer some recommendations for researchers that intend to conduct similar study.
5.1 Conclusion
In conclusion, the stylistic analysis of those two characters has proved that the linguistic features employed in those two characters have contributed to
understand the characters more. It supports the literary analysis on the psychology of the characters. Moreover, it gives details by analyzing the language chosen by
the characters. Then it can be concluded that stylistic analysis offers different perspective to the analysis of a literary work that can enrich the literary
interpretation. Concerning to this study, the first linguistic feature analyzed is the modality
system, and some different styles of the modality system between those two characters can be found in this analysis. The modality system of Mavis gives
significant contribution to the mental process of the character. On the other hand, it does not have any significant roles in Connie if looking at the number of
occurrence. The modality system of Mavis is quite significant to describe Mavis’s
attitude. In excerpt 1, due to Mavis’s purpose to escape from her house safely, the modality system is used to analyze the situation, predict the action of her children
